Police officer groomed 200 girls for explicit images, court hears

Lewis Edwards resigned from South Wales police after being caught posing as a teenager on Snapchat and secretly recording girls as young as 10

A serving police officer incited more than 200 girls as young as 10 to share explicit images and videos of themselves with him via Snapchat, a court has heard.

Lewis Edwards, 24, who was suspended from the police force after he was caught and subsequently resigned, sometimes posed as a 14-year-old boy called James when he contacted girls and got them to carry out sexual acts.